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Crime of passion : ウィキペディア英語版 | Crime of passion
A crime of passion, or ''crime passionnel'' (from French), in popular usage, refers to a violent crime, especially murder, in which the perpetrator commits the act against someone because of sudden strong impulse such as sudden rage rather than as a premeditated crime.〔http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/crime+of+passion〕 ==Description== A crime of passion refers to a criminal act in which the perpetrator commits a crime, especially murder or assault, against someone because of sudden strong impulse such as sudden rage rather than as a premeditated crime.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/crime+of+passion )〕 A typical crime of passion might involve an aggressive pub-goer who assaults another guest following an argument or a husband who discovers his wife has engaged in adultery and proceeds to brutally batter or even kill his wife or the man with whom she was involved. In the United States, crimes of passions have been traditionally associated with the defenses of temporary insanity or provocation. This defense was first used by U.S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was mostly used during the 1940s and 1950s. Historically, such defenses were used as complete defenses for various violent crimes, but gradually they became used primarily as a partial defense to a charge of murder which acts by converting what would otherwise have been murder into manslaughter. In some countries, notably France, ''crime passionnel'' (or ''crime of passion'') was a valid defense during murder cases; during the 19th century, some cases could be a custodial sentence for two years for the murderer, while the spouse was dead; this ended in France as the Napoleonic code was updated in the 1970s so that a specific father's authority upon his whole family was over.
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